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- North American rights to Stephen Miller's The Martyr's Song, about a young terrorist’s odyssey across America and the man whose mission it is to stop her, to Kate Miciak at Bantam/Delacorte, by Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold: Israeli and Audio.
- Polish rights to Ryan Knighton’s Cockeyed, a memoir of growing up and going blind, to Woloszanki Publishing by Sabina Lagowska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Slovakian rights to the first thriller in D.J. McIntosh’s Mesopotamian trilogy The Witch of Babylon, about a New York art dealer caught up in the aftermath of the looting of the Baghdad Museum, to SLOVART by Sabina Lagowska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in 8 territories, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Russia, and Turkey.
- Hebrew rights to Bookweirder, the second volume in Paul Glennon’s series abut a boy who gets mixed up in the stories in the books he is reading, have gone again to Yediot Ahronot Books. The deal was done by Efrat Lev of The Deborah Harris Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Turkish rights to The Orange Trees of Baghadad: In Search of My Lost Family by Leilah Nadir have gone to Epsilon, bringing the total number of territories sold to 5, including Canada, UK, Italy and France. The deal was done by Ackali Copyright Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Norwegian rights to the second installment of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, have gone again to Forlaget Press, bringing the number of territories sold for this volume to 20. The deal was done by Trine Lich of Lich & Burr on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish rights to Annabel Lyon’s second YA novel, Encore Edie, about a teenager who stages King Lear: the Musical and casts her Down syndrome cousin in it, have been sold to Stabenfeldt by Trine Licht of Licht & Burr on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Dutch rights to Annabel Lyon’s award-winning bestseller for grown-ups, The Golden Mean, have been sold to Chris Herschdorfer at Ambo/Anthos by Marianne Schönbach on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold to twelve.
- Canadian English-language rights to British Columbian Melanie Murray’s memoir of her nephew, For Your Tomorrow: The Life and Death of Captain Jefferson Clifford Francis, a meditation on what compels an affluent, well-educated man to risk his life for that controversial mission and how his family copes with his loss when he dies there, have gone to Craig Pyette at Random House Canada for release in May 2011. Captain Francis gave up doctoral studies to volunteer to go to Afghanistan with the Canadian Army.
- Finnish rights to Annabel Lyon’s award-winning Canadian bestseller The Golden Mean, about Aristotle’s relationship with the young Alexander the Great, have been sold to BTJ by Trine Licht of Licht & Burr on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold to eleven. The novel will be released this fall in the US by Knopf and in the UK by Atlantic.
- Turkish rights to Annabel Lyon’s award-winning Canadian bestseller The Golden Mean, about Aristotle’s relationship with the young Alexander the Great, have been sold to Pegasus Yayinlari by Atilla Izgi Turgut of Akcali Copyright Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold to ten.
- World French rights ex-Canada to Lori Lansens’ The Wife’s Tale have gone again to Editions l’Archipel, bringing the total number of territories sold to ten. The deal was done by Anna Jarota on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. French-Canadian rights were sold previously to Editions Alto.
- Polish rights to Aleksander Topolski’s Without Vodka: Adventures in Wartime Russia, about surviving repeated Soviet capture and starvation during World War II to escape and join the Polish Second Corps in Iran and later the British Eighth Army to fight the Germans, to Rebis by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. The book was originally published in Canada in 2000 by McArthur and Company and in the USA in 2001 by Steerforth.
- English Canadian rights to journalist, author and blogger Rebecca Eckler’s How to Raise a Boyfriend: Etiquette for Clueless Men and Equally Clueless Women, about how to make sure you don’t let the man in your life get away with things you would never allow your child to do, and how to make sure your son grows up to be the perfect boyfriend, to Amy Black at Doubleday Canada for publication on Valentine’s Day in 2012.
- Polish rights to Ryan Knighton’s memoir of blind fatherhood, C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark, have been sold to Nasza Ksiegarnia by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is his first foreign rights sale.
- Turkish rights to Anosh Irani’s epic tale of three generations of Persian Zoroastrians in India, Dahanu Road, have been sold to Inkilap Kitabevi by Atilla Izgi Turgut of Akcali Copyright Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in Canada (where it will be released in April by Doubleday), India, and Italy, where Irani’s previous novel has sold 125,000 copies.
- UK and Commonwealth, excluding Canada, large print rights for Alan Bradley's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag to Magna Large Print Books via Bill Heath at A.M. Heath & Co Ltd.
- Estonian rights to Alan Bradley’s bestselling first novel in the Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, have been sold to Tiritamm by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to thirty-two.
- Turkish rights to D.T. McIntosh’s first antiquities thriller in The Mesopotamian Trilogy, The Witch of Babylon, to Dogan Kitapcilik by Atilla Izgi Turgut of Akcali Copyright Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold to eight.
- US rights to journalist John Doyle’s Pete McCarthy-meets-Nick-Hornby travelogue The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer to John Atwood at Rodale, for release in fall 2010, by Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski Agency; UK rights to Eoin McHugh of Transworld Ireland by Bill Hamilton of A.M. Heath on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, for publication in May 2010; and Croatian rights to Znanje D.D. for release in May 2010, by Agnieszka Zielińska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency
- Norwegian rights to The Girls author Lori Lansens’ novel The Wife’s Tale, again to Juritzen Forlag, bringing the total number of territories sold to ten, by Trine Licht of Licht and Burr on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Turkish rights to Lori Lansens’ novel The Wife’s Tale, the story of an obese woman whose husband disappears on their 25th anniversary, to Artemis Yayinlari by Atilla Izgi Turgut of Akcali Copyright Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total territories sold to nine.
- World rights to Pierre Desrochers’ and Hiroko Shimizu’s The Locavore’s Dilemma: A Manifesto in Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet, exposing the fallacies of the local food movement, to Niki Papadopoulos at Public Affairs Books for release in 2011.
- Taiwanese rights to Alan Bradley’s second novel in the Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, again to Azoth, by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold for this book to nineteen.
- Canadian rights to Valerie Compton’s debut The Tide Road, a novel set in Prince Edward Island and driven by the mystery of a young woman’s death and the thwarted desires of her mother when she was a young lighthouse keeper, to Susanne Alexander at Goose Lane Editions, for release in 2011.
- Film rights to Anthony De Sa’s Barnacle Love, about the wrenching forces that tear a Portuguese immigrant family apart, have gone to singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, through Sean Daily at Hotchkiss and Associates, on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. The book will be released in the USA in August by Algonquin Books.
- Author of prize-winning bestseller The Golden Mean Annabel Lyon has reached an agreement with Publisher Anne Collins of Random House Canada for Canadian English rights to The Sweet Girl, the story of the Aristotle’s daughter Pythias' fierce resistance to his attempt at the end of his life to arrange her marriage before he died. The deal was done by Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski Agency on the basis of a one-page synopsis, for a manuscript to be delivered in September 2012 for publication in 2013. "Little Pythias" appears as an infant in The Golden Mean.
- Canadian English-language rights to Yasuko Thanh’s debut collection of stories, Floating Like the Dead, have gone to Anita Chong at McClelland & Stewart, for publication in spring 2011. Thanh is the 2009 winner of Canada’s prestigious Journey Prize for the best short story by a new writer. [More...]
- Icelandic rights to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley to Forlagid via Julie Løvgren at Licht & Burr on behalf of the Bukowski Agency, bringing the total territories sold to 31.
- Foreign rights to Annabel Lyon’s award-winning recreation of the life of Aristotle, The Golden Mean, have gone to Sareni Ducan in Croatia via Agnieszka Zielinska at Graa, and to Ye-Ren in Taiwan via Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency. This brings the number of territories sold to nine, including the US, UK, Canada, France, Spain, Brazil, and Portugal, with audio rights going to Recorded Books.
- Russian-language rights to Anosh Irani’s The Song of Kahunsha, about street kids in Bombay caught up in sectarian riots in the 1990s, have gone to Phantom Press, bringing the total number of territories sold to 12. The book is a bestseller in its Italian edition, with 125,000 copies in print; just released in mainland China, 20,000 were sold almost immediately. The Russian deal was done by Julia Goumen on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Russian-language rights to D.J. McIntosh’s Mesopotamian Trilogy of thrillers, beginning with The Witch of Babylon, have gone to AST Publishers. Rights were previously sold in Germany, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Lithuania. The deal was done by Julia Goumen on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Danish-language rights to the first two books in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, have gone to Forlaget Punktum, bringing the number of territories sold to 30. The deal was done by Julie Lovgren of Licht & Burr on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Canadian French rights to Wayson Choy’s memoir of surviving near-death twice, Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying (Doubleday Canada), have gone again to Les Editions XYZ Inc. of Montreal via Emmanuelle Aronson of La Nouvelle Agence on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, for publication in 2012.
- UK rights to Annabel Lyon's recreation of the world of Aristotle and Alexander the Great, The Golden Mean, have gone to Ravi Mirchandani at Atlantic Books via Bill Hamilton of A.M. Heath on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Portuguese rights have gone to Dom Quixote via Natàlia Berenguer Gamell of Sandra Bruna Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights were previously sold in the US, Canada, Brazil, France, and Spain.
- Indian English-language rights to Anosh Irani’s family saga and love story about Iranian Zoroastrian refugees who settled around the Bombay area, Dahanu Road, have been sold to Saugata Mukherjee at HarperCollins India.
- Chetmo in Bulgaria and Gimtasis Zodis in Lithuania have picked up rights to D.J. McIntosh’s antiquities thriller set in Mesopotamia, The Witch of Babylon, bringing the total number of rights sales to six (along with Canada, Italy, Germany, and Serbia). The deals were done by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Crina Draghici of Editura Trei has acquired Romanian-language rights to Alan Bradley’s first novel in the Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, bringing the total territories sold to 29. The deal was done by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- US rights to Annabel Lyon’s multi-award-nominated novel The Golden Mean (Random House Canada), about the philosopher Aristotle’s relationship with his student, the teenage Alexander the Great, have gone at auction to Diana Coglianese and Sonny Mehta at Knopf. Also, on behalf of The Bukowski Agency: Spanish rights to the novel have also gone at auction to Roca Editorial of Barcelona via Sandra Bruna; French rights to Editions la Table Ronde via Anna Jarota; and Brazilian Portuguese rights to Leya Brasil via João Paulo Riff.
- Greek rights to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley have gone to Lyhnari Publishing House via Nelly Moukakou at JLM Literary Agency on behalf of the Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to 28.
- Polish rights to All the Good Pilgrims: Tales of the Camino de Santiago by Robert Ward, originally published in Canada by Thomas Allen in 2007, have been sold to Sic! Publishing House for publication in autumn 2010 by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of the Bukowski Agency.
- Polish rights to mysteries 2-5 in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce series, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Hang, Gypsy! Dance, Gypsy!, and Seeds of Antiquity, have been sold to Vesper, the publisher of the first volume, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of the Bukowski Agency.
- Italian rights to the first thriller in D.J. McIntosh’s Mesopotamian trilogy, The Witch of Babylon, about a New York art dealer caught up in the aftermath of the looting of the Baghdad Museum, to Rizzoli via Laura Grandi; and Serbian rights to Alnari via Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal, both on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights sold previously in Germany and Canada.
- Albanian language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Morava Publishing House. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd. Sweetness has now been sold to twenty-seven territories worldwide.
- German-language rights to the first in a trilogy of thrillers, The Witch of Babylon by D.J. McIntosh, about a New York art-dealer caught up in the aftermath of the sacking of the Baghdad Museum and the discovery of a treasure trove of Mesopotamian artifacts, to Helmut Pesch at Leubbe Verlag, by Annelie Geissler of Mohrbooks on behalf of the Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold to Penguin Canada. Italian rights will be sold shortly.
- German-language rights to the first in a trilogy of thrillers, The Witch of Babylon by D.J. McIntosh, about a New York art-dealer caught up in the aftermath of the sacking of the Baghdad Museum and the discovery of a treasure trove of Mesopotamian artifacts, to Helmut Pesch at Leubbe Verlag, by Annelie Geissler of Mohrbooks on behalf of the Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold to Penguin Canada. Italian rights will be sold shortly.
- Norwegian rights to The Girls, Lori Lansens’ novel about conjoined twins, have been sold by Tracy Williams at Little, Brown to Juritzen Forlag. Rights have now been sold in nineteen territories.
- Canadian rights to The Mesopotamian Trilogy by D.J. McIntosh, beginning with The Witch of Babylon, an antiquities thriller about a New York art dealer caught up in the aftermath of the looting of the Baghdad Museum, have been sold to Adrienne Kerr at Penguin Canada by Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski Agency in a three-book deal. Penguin will publish The Witch of Babylon in April 2011. The book won the Arthur Ellis Award for best unpublished crime novel, and was previously shortlisted for the UK Debut Dagger Award.
- Estonian rights to psychologist Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, which examines why the differences between girls and boys in the classroom are reversed in the workplace so that men still dominate the upper echelons and high-powered women often opt out, have gone to Kirjastus Pegasus by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in seventeen territories.
- Norwegian rights to Lori Lansens’ Rush Home Road, the story of the relationship between an elderly black woman and a young mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mother, have been sold by Tracy Williams at Little, Brown to Juritzen Forlag. Rights have previously been sold in eleven territories.
- Simplified Chinese character rights to The Girls, Lori Lansens’ novel about conjoined twins, have been sold by Tracy Williams at Little, Brown to Shanghai Century Publishing. Rights have previously been sold in seventeen territories.
- Arabic-language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Arab Scientific Publishers of Beirut by The Bukowski Agency. Simone Garzella acted on behalf of the publisher. Sweetness has now been sold in twenty-six territories.
- Polish-language rights to The Girls author Lori Lansens’ The Wife’s Tale, about an obese woman whose husband disappears on their 25th anniversary, sending her across the country in search of him, have gone to W.A.B. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd. Rights have previously been sold in the US, UK, Canada (English and French), Italy, the Netherlands, and Brazil.
- Lithuanian language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Vaga. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Sweetness has now been sold to twenty-five territories worldwide.
- Mainland Chinese rights (simplified characters) to neurologist Liam Durcan’s award-winning debut novel García’s Heart, about the war crimes trial of a doctor accused of participating in torture, have gone to Beijing Booky Company. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in the USA, Canada, Holland, Italy and Taiwan.
- Croatian-language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag have been sold to Naklada Ljevak. The deal was arranged by Peter Bolza of the Katai & Bolza Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Turkish-language rights have gone to Domingo Publishing. The deal was arranged by Jericho Buendia of The Bukowski Agency.
- Croatian-language rights to bestselling author Wayson Choy’s memoir Not Yet, an intimate and insightful story about surviving near-death twice, have been sold to Naklada Ljevak. The deal was arranged by Peter Bolza of Katai & Bolza Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in Canada and Australia.
- Taiwanese complex character Chinese rights to Anosh Irani’s The Song of Kahunsha, about an orphan’s search for his long-lost father in the violent streets of 1993 Bombay, have been sold to Commonwealth Publishing. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in ten territories, including US, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Israel, Brazil, Portugal and Mainland China.
- Brazilian Portuguese rights to The Girls author Lori Lansens’ The Wife’s Tale, about an obese woman whose husband disappears on their 25th anniversary, sending her across the country in search of him, have gone to Rosemary Alves at Bertrand Brasil, an imprint of Grupo Editorial Record. The deal was arranged by João Paolo Riff on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. French-Canadian rights have also been sold to Antoine Tanguay at Editions Alto by Vanessa Kling of La Nouvelle Agence. Rights have previously been sold in five territories, including the US, the UK, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands.
- Canadian rights to journalist Valerie Fortney’s biography Canada’s Daughter: The Global Journey of Captain Nichola Goddard, about the first female Canadian solider to die in combat, have gone to Linda Pruessen at Key Porter Books, for publication in fall 2010. Goddard was born in Papua New Guinea to idealistic pacifist educators and died at age 26 in 2006 in Afghanistan. Her story embodies the national debate over participation in the war there.
- Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North, co-authored by Ken Coates, Bill Morrison, Greg Poelzer and Whitney Lackenbauer, has won the 2009 Donner Prize of $35,000. The prize is awarded annually for the best book on Canadian public policy.
- Mainland Chinese rights (simplified characters) to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag and Hang, Gypsy! Dance Gypsy! have been sold to Beijing Hongwenguan Publishing & Planning Co. Ltd. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the 22nd territory sold for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. In addition, US English-language large-print rights have been sold to Thorndike Press by Random House Publishing Group US.
- Czech-language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Euromedia Group. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. The title has now been sold to twenty-one territories worldwide.
- The film of Ryan Knighton's Cockeyed, to be directed by Jodie Foster, receives US$40,000 funding from The Tribeca Film Institute's Sloan Filmmaker Fund, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fund supports feature-length narrative projects that “tell compelling stories about science and technology or portray scientists, engineers and mathematicians as major characters.”
- Mainland Chinese rights (simplified characters) to Anosh Irani’s The Song of Kahunsha, about an orphan’s search for his long-lost father in the violent streets of 1993 Bombay, have been sold to Beijing Book Company. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in nine territories, including US, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Israel, Brazil, and Portugal.
- Dutch language rights to The Girls author Lori Lansens’ The Wife’s Tale, about an obese woman whose husband disappears on their 25th anniversary, sending her across the country in search of him, have gone again to de Bezige Bij (The Busy Bee). The deal was arranged by Marianne Schönbach on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in the US, the UK, Canada and Italy.
- Serbian-language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Sanja Djurdjevic at Marso Publishing House. The deal was arranged by Jericho Buendia of The Bukowski Agency. The title has now been sold to twenty territories worldwide.
- Dutch language rights to the first two titles in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag – have gone to Marga de Boer at Luitingh-Sijthoff. The deal was arranged by the Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the nineteenth territory sold.
- Korean language rights to Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, exploring the biological reasons why girls perform better than boys do at school but often opt out of high-status jobs, have been sold to Soopsogyeoubi. The deal was arranged by Joe Moon of the Duran Kim Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the seventeenth territory sold.
- Italian language rights to Lori Lansen’s The Wife’s Tale, about an obese woman whose husband disappears on their 25th anniversary, sending her across the country in search of him, have gone to Mondadori. The deal was arranged by Silvia Donzelli of Grandi & Associati on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in the US, the UK, and Canada.
- Portuguese rights to the first three titles in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag and Hang, Gypsy! Dance Gypsy! – have gone to Planeta Manuscrito. The deal was arranged by Natàlia Berenguer of the Sandra Bruna Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the eighteenth territory sold.
- Taiwanese Complex Character Chinese rights to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first title in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England, have gone to Azoth Books. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the seventeenth territory sold.
- Russian rights to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie gone to AST Publishing Group. The deal was arranged by Julia Goumen of Goumen & Smirnova Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the sixteenth territory sold.
- UK rights to volumes 4-6 of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series have gone again to Bill Massey at Orion, publisher of the first volume, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. The entire series of six titles was sold previously in the US (Bantam) and Canada (Doubleday). The UK deal was done by Bill Hamilton of A.M. Heath on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- World rights to CBC Radio Workplace Specialist Frank Koller's Spark: Lincoln Electric and the Importance of a Steady Job, a timely investigation of a Cleveland-based Fortune 1000 company that guarantees never to lay off employees for economic reasons, have been sold to Clive Priddle at Public Affairs for publication in February 2010.
- Slovak-language rights to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first title in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England, have gone to Ikar. The deal was arranged by Ilene Kreshka on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Norwegian rights have gone to Forlaget Press in a deal arranged by Louise Hald of Licht & Burr Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. These rights sales bring the number of territories sold to fifteen.
- World English rights to award-winner Austin Clarke’s first two novels from the 1960s, The Survivors of the Crossing and Amongst Thistles and Thorns, have gone to Peepal Tree Press, for re-issue as part of the Caribbean Modern Classics series. The deal was arranged by David Whiteside of The Bukowski Agency.
- Canadian rights to Alan Bradley’s unwritten volumes 4-6 in the Flavia de Luce mystery series (Seeds of Antiquity, Death In Camera, The Nasty Light of Day) have gone to Kristin Cochrane at Doubleday Canada, in advance of the February 14 Canadian publication of volume one, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
- US rights to Alan Bradley’s unwritten fourth to sixth volumes in the Flavia de Luce mystery series (Seeds of Antiquity, Death In Camera, The Nasty Light of Day) have gone to Kate Miciak at Bantam, in advance of the May publication of volume one, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, as a Delacorte hardcover. Rights to the first three books in the series, centred on a pigtailed 11-year-old sleuth with a passion for poisons in 1950s England, have been sold in thirteen territories. It was released in the UK by Orion in January and will launch in Canada from Doubleday on February 14.
- Portuguese rights to Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap have gone to Planeta via Sandra Bruna on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the sixteenth territory sold.
- Complex Chinese rights to neurologist Liam Durcan’s award-winning debut novel García’s Heart, about the war crimes trial of a doctor accused of participating in torture, have gone to Sun Color Culture Publishing in Taiwan. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in the USA, Canada, Holland, and Italy.